Area and Population
The area was 28,951 km² and contained most of the territories of the historical province of Greater Poland, which comprised the western parts of the Duchy of Warsaw (Departments of Poznań, Bydgoszcz, partly Kalisz) that were ceded to Prussia according to the Congress of Vienna (1815) with an international guarantee of self-administration and free development of the Polish nation.
Population:
- 900,000 (1815)
- 1,350,000 (1849)
- 2,100,000 (1910)
In 1815 ethnic Poles made up about 73% of the overall population, while ethnic Germans were 25% and ethnic Jews 2%. Despite Germanisation efforts, the Polish population remained the majority, however, it decreased to 64% of population by 1910.
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